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put down the days on which his respective 

 grains were sown ; and, by comparing these 

 two tables for a number of years, he will be 

 enabled to form an exact calendar for his spring 

 corn. An attention to the discolouring and 

 falling of the leaves of plants will assist him in 

 sowing his winter corn, and teach him to guess 

 at the approach of winter. Towards the end 

 of September, which is the best season for sow- 

 ing wheat, he will find the leaves of the 



Plane Tree, tawny. 

 Oak, yellowish green. 

 Hazel, yellow. 

 Sycamore, dirty brown. 

 Maple, pale yellow. 



Ash, fine lemon. 

 Elm, orange. 

 Hawthorn, tawny yellow. 

 Cherry, red. 

 Hornbeam, bright yellow. 



Appearances of this sublime nature may be 

 compared to the writing on the wall, which 

 was seen by many, but understood by few. 

 They seem to constitute a kind of harmonious 

 intercourse between God and man. They are 

 the silent language of the Deity. 



Mr. Young has endeavoured to ascertain the 

 time of sowing by another method; but the 

 temperature of the season, with respect to heat 

 and cold, drought and rain, differs in every 

 year. Experiments made this year cannot de- 

 termine for the next. The hints of Linnaeus 



